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AFT & District disagree on campus free speech rights |
Read The San Matean article: "At odds over free speech"
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News articles related to community college faculty issues and SMCCCD, selected from around the county, state and nation and updated regularly. To receive these articles by email, send a request to be added to the AFT 1493 email list to Dan Kaplan at:
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July 24, 2010—Editorial: Educate, accommodate state's trained and jobless (San Francisco Chronicle)
July 22, 2010—For-profit colleges: Monsters in the making? (The Economist)
July 8, 2010—Community colleges consider implementing fee hike (San Francisco Examiner)
July 8, 2010—So far, community colleges snubbing for-profit Kaplan University (California Watch)
July 4, 2010—Is outsourcing community college education serving students? (Los Angeles Times)
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Sign the Online Petition to Support Binding Arbitration! |
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We are asking all District faculty who support “binding arbitration” to please sign our online petition so we can clearly show how the faculty feel about this issue. Click here to sign the petition!
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March for California's Future culminates with huge rally at Capitol
César Chávez Day came and went without acknowledgment from most mainstream print media of a Chávez-inspired 365-mile march that lasted 48 days and culminated in thousands of Californians converging upon the State Capitol April 21st. Wave after wave of union workers, educators, students, parents, and demanded funding for basic public services that citizens in developed nations expect for their tax dollars, such as functioning schools, roads and parks.
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AFT1493.org named best website in state! |
Part-Timer Unemployment Insurance Benefits
All part-time faculty members should remember that you are eligible for unemployment compensation benefits over the summer break and between semesters, unless you are working another job over the summer or between semesters and you are earning more than your unemployment grant would be.
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George W. Goth
June 23, 1943 – November 28, 2009
George Goth, Skyline College Chemistry and Physics Professor, long-time AFT 1493 Executive Committee member and founding editor of The Advocate, died on November 28, 2009, of cardiac arrest with secondary causes of respiratory failure and complications due to Type II Diabetes.
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